Danny Meadow Mouse Trapped by Billy Mink
Danny Meadow Mouse hides in a hollow log as Billy Mink waits outside the door to trap him. Danny trembles with fear and recalls his mistakes, wondering how to escape while Mink plots a bite sized meal. The scene captures the hunter prey tension common in Thornton Burgess bedtime tales.
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Anny Meadow Mouse
Billy Mink
Danny
Danny Meadow Mouse
Billy
Laughing Brook
T. W. Burgess
Mastering Roux and French Dressing In Home Cookery
Practical guide from a 1910s Western Newspaper Union column explains white and brown roux for gravies and sauces, how to store them, and a two week French dressing recipe with onions peppers celery parsley and a vinegar oil mix. Also notes adding hard boiled eggs just before serving.
JUESTION BOX to ED WYNN The Perfect Foot
A reader asks about weight loss using 20 rolls after breakfast and discomfort after 12. Ed Wynn replies with a humorous suggestion to try twenty turnovers.
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ED Wynn
Mr. Wynn
Imalite
Love's Lamps A Poem About Enduring Love
A poem reflects on a lasting love depicted as twelve lamps burning from a single flame. The speaker recalls a past intimate world and notes how their children now carry the glow, with warm memories and a steady, bright affection remaining despite time.
Early umbrellas described as portable shelter and status symbol
In early dictionaries the umbrella is called a portable pent house carried by a person to shield from rain or heat. In the Middle Ages it signified rank and was common in ceremonial processions. The first US use appeared in Baltimore in 1772. McClure Newspaper Syndicate. 'o WNU Service.
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United States
Baltimore
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
WNU
Be a queen in cotton pattern 2175 sewing guide
Adaptable cotton dress pattern 2175 offers a round yoke panel front and optional puff sleeves. It showcases color combinations in percale gingham broad cloth or lawn and includes illustrated sewing steps. Size 16 uses 8 1 2 yards of 36 inch fabric. Send 15 cents to the Sewing Circle Pattern Department in New York.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Department
West Seventeenth Street
New York
Just Fancy Aboard Ocean Liner Stunt Quips In Harbour
Two ladies touring an ocean liner ask a seaman why the vessel sits in harbor. The reply jokes that workers are "doin' somethin to one of the screws" and the passengers marvel at how a small screw could hold up a huge liner.
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Montreal Star
Indian man answers bigoted remark in split scene
A dialogue shows a Native American man facing a hostile question about leaving the country. He bluntly replies he cannot since he is an Indian, highlighting identity in a tense moment of contact.
Nineties Dance Recalled In Raid Memory
An uncle and his niece recall a lively dance from the nineteen nineties, noting that the place had been raided. The brief reflection appears as a clipped reminiscence from the Canal Zone Air Fleet Base.
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Air Fleet Base
Canal Zone
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Windsor Castle
George
Thornton W. Burgess
Oldster’s
Bell Syndicate
Western Newspaper Union
Padis
Girligags
Cora
Olly Annarh
E.quine
Effi
Ciency
Ann Gloe Saxon
Associated Newspapers
WNU Service
Love’s
By Anne Campbell
Vionnet
Fore
Witte Loanaty
St. Louis
Lynn
York
Maine
Willie
Ron
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